Tests of hypotheses in discrete models based on the penalized Hellinger distance

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 367-373

  Basu, Ayanendranath ^a   Harris, Ian R ^a   Basu, Srabashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hellinger distance; Likelihood ratio test; Rao test; Robustness; Wald test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030139587     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7152(95)00101-8     Document Type: Article

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